Page 6 NEWS & ENTERTAINMENT 26 January 2007 ’s widow to Peaches and Bream open Durbs exhibition FINOLA QUARSINGH NATTY DREAD: An THE 62nd anniversary of exhibition reggae legend Bob Marley’s opening at birth will be celebrated at the Durban Art Gallery early next the Durban month. The exhibition, titled Art Gallery “Bob Marley: A Life in next month Photographs”, featuring 100 includes pictures of the late musician, lesser will run from 6 – 27 February. known In the 25 years since his death, Bob Marley has photographs become one of the most of the late recognised faces in the world ‘Third World of music. Superstar, The exhibition features Robert prints by Adrian Boot, Nester Dennis Morris and Lee Jaffe Marley that tell the story of how a boy from a rural Jamaican village became a global icon. Marley, the young son of a Jamaican mother and white English father moved to Marley’s tragic early death eminence through Island oppression. It remains an Trench Town, the tough West from cancer at the age of 36. Record’s marketing important element of his Kingston neighbourhood The exhibition, a collection campaigns, while Lee Jaffe’s legacy, and no doubt he and formed a singing trio of photographs of both the candid shots from the early would be pleased to see it with his friends private and public Bob 70s are much less widely remembered in a now free and Bunny Livingston. Marley, is not a linear known. South Africa. For more than a decade, narrative of his life, although Neville Garrick’s , wife of the late the trio struggled to gain it is roughly chronological. photographs at Zimbabwe’s legend will officially open the recognition in Jamaica’s Many of the images independence ceremonies exhibition on Tuesday, 6 ‘THINK or Swim’ is the title of this image created by competitive music industry. exhibited reveal the extent to will have a particular February at 6pm, at which Durban artist Fran Saunders. It is part of an exhibition, Opportunity grasped Marley which Marley communi- resonance in a Southern other members of the Marley ‘The Love We Leave Behind’, which opens on Monday, when he was offered a cated through his facial African context. family will be present. 5 February at 6.30pm at artSpace (3 Millar Road, off recording contract with expressions, so some of the African liberation was one Entry to the Durban Art Umgeni Road). It is a joint exhibition by Saunders and Island Records and with his images will be familiar, of the central themes of Bob Gallery is free and all are artist and writer Peter Machen and reflects a view growing international others certainly less so. Marley’s music. As a child of welcome. popularity he became “the Some of Adrian Boot’s the Diaspora, he became For more information held by both of them: That our lives derive meaning first Third World Superstar”. portraits of Marley have someone that despised contact the Durban Art from moments infused with love. For more details, call Shortly afterwards came achieved a certain amount of racism, colonialism and Gallery on 031 311 2264. 031 312 0793

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